OVER 200,000 SUPPORTERS ABANDON ATIKU ABUBAKAR, DEFECT TO APC
OVER
200,000 SUPPORTERS ABANDON ATIKU ABUBAKAR, DEFECT TO APC
Over 200,000 Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) members and supporters
of former Vice President Alhaji Atiku Abubakar have defected to the ruling All
Progressives Congress (APC).
The defecting Atiku’s loyalists who are members of the ‘Atiku Care
Foundation’ in the North-West Zone on Sunday dumped the Foundation and
collapsed into Arewa Media Group Organisation for Buhari 2019 Campaign.
At a brief ceremony, chairman of the amalgamated group under the
auspices of Atiku Care Foundation, Comrade Sanusi Ababai, said over seven
affiliates of the Atiku Care Foundation supporters, decided to dump Atiku for
the reelection of President Buhari because of unfulfilled promises.
He said: “For several years now, we have been working hard for the
development of Atiku Care Foundation. A lot of promises were made when we
started.
“They told us that Alhaji Atiku Abubakar needed a platform to
reach out to the masses at the grassroot. We were committed because there were
programmes from healthcare delivery, education, entrepreneurship, youth and
women empowerment.”
Ababai, former Director of Administration and Strategy in-charge
of North-West for Atiku Care Foundation, said the group has decided to pitch
its tent with President Muhammadu Buhari’s 2019 re-election bid for his
foresight and commitment to redeem Nigeria from the shackles of corruption and
poverty.